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Must answer the following questions:

1. Compare and contrast the effects of the slave trade on and the nature of slavery in the following places:

Europe

Africa

The United States

2. Compare and contrast the lives and careers of Frederick Douglass, as presented in his autobiography, and Okonkwo, as we learn of him in Things Fall Apart. In what ways were their life experiences similar and different? In what ways can you perceive links between the lives they led? Is colonialism the crucial issue in understanding their life situations? Or race? Explain.